3rd August 2017, Wide Eyed Editions, 32 pages, Hardback, Review copy
Summary from Quarto
Jump aboard the red aeroplane with Dinosaur Detective and travel the
world in search of lost animals. From the jungle to the stormy sea to
outer space, test your spotting skills in this puzzle-packed tour of a
dozen different destinations.
Nayu's thoughts
I absolutely love this kind
of book: it reminds me of when I was a child and had most of the
Where's Wally books. I'd spend hours pouring over them! I didn't spend
hours on this book as the colour scheme isn't my favourite and,
unfortunately, there were a lot of wiggly creatures which I'm afraid
of. That's the only reason why this doesn't get full marks.
I liked
how there was a good balance of human and non-human creatures to find
in the highly detailed pictures. Like those of my childhood this book
got my imagination going about how everyone lived in the scenes
showed. There is 1 main goal on a double page spread, with a couple of other things
to find-don't worry, there is an answer page at the back!
At the end the
characters that were helped previously have additional requests to go
back and look for-my favourite for this was the princess who had a sandwich
stolen! My favourite scene is the dinosaur detective's home.
There is so much to it, with lots of rooms on the multistory
building, full of interesting furniture (and a few creature friends) with the detective needing to be found having some well
deserved rest. Definitely hours of fun to be had in this adventure
book!
Suggested read
Other search and find books for younger readers include Pairs! In the Garden & Underwater by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie (Children's, Board book, Picture book)
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